January 6, 2022
Creating type with Lego
The Better-verse
Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat. 'kind of wild that when you join a vrchat world someone can run a linux kernel on your gpu by packing it into a shader on their avatar' - suzuha (Twitter) [more inside]
“Snow is like the cosmos itself."
Siberia-based photgrapher Roma Gostev captures the snow-coated serenity of his city Nizhnevartovsk [more inside]
Reflections on Jan. 6
Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun: January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election. [more inside]
pure Proustian existentialism - Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree
New 33 1/3 Book Zooms In on John Prine’s Debut Album (No Depression): "Much more than a detailed analysis of the album, though, Osmon’s contribution to the series is a love letter from one Midwesterner to another, as well as an intimate portrait — drawing on archival materials and published interviews — of the folk clubs, neighborhood, and family that shaped Prine and about which he wrote so evocatively in his songs. As “a fifteen-year Chicago resident,” Osmon writes, “I’ve always understood Prine through the lens of our Middle American provenance, and admired his singular ability to convey our commonplace happenings to universal effect." [more inside]
"This is my favorite soup!"
"We Are Much More Than a Team"
The Novi Sad raid started on 1942 January 6
Cold Days is an award winning Hungarian* drama from 1966 about the Novi sad raid. The movie follows the often contradictory memories and self-justifications of four minor officers waiting for trial after the war. The raid started 80 years ago. [more inside]
An app that hijacks Twitter and Facebook with right-wing propaganda
The Wire India has released a report on Tek Fog, an app claimed by whistleblowers to "hijack major social media and encrypted messaging platforms and amplify right-wing propaganda to a domestic audience" for the Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling party of the Republic of India. It allows users to directly hijack Twitter and Facebook "trending" data, phish WhatsApp accounts, exploit databases to harass private citizens, and allow operatives to destroy all traces of their activity.
Lessons: Training and organizing political volunteers at scale
Being really intentional about the space you're creating virtually or in person can help people feel comfortable and want to come back. That's how you build volunteer leaders. Then, the more volunteer leaders you have, obviously the more you can scale and remove the responsibility of work and burden on the actual campaign staff. For new newsletter Campaigner, Debra Cohen of political training organization Arena interviews strategist Ashley Williams, who worked on two of the largest volunteer recruitment and training efforts to help dump Trump: Organizing Together 2020 and Vote Save America.
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